Disease, diagnosis, and cure on the early modern stage
By: edited by Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson.
Contributors: Moss, Stephanie.; Peterson, Kaara L.
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Medicine.; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Medicine in literature.; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Physicians in literature.; Diseases in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing arts : hysterical disease, exorcism, and Shakespeare's theater / Kaara L. Peterson; title: No faith in physic : masquerades of medicine onstage and off / Tanya Pollard; title: Note her a little farther : doctors and healers in the drama of Shakespeare / Barbara Howard Traister; title: Hot blood : estranging Mediterranean bodies in early modern medical and dramatic texts / Carol Thomas Neely; title: Some love that drew him oft from home : syphilis and international commerce in the comedy of errors / Jonathan Gil Harris; title: Elizabethan racial medical psychology, popular drama, and the social programming of the late-Tudor Black : sketching an exploratory postcolonial hypothesis / Imtiaz Habib; title: Infectious rape, therapeutic revenge : bloodletting and the health of Rome's body / Catherine Belling; title: The fille vièrge as pharmakon : the therapeutic value of Desdemona's corpse / Louise Noble; title: Transformation and degeneration : the paracelsan/galenic body in Othello / Stephanie Moss; title: Cankers in Romeo and Juliet : sixteenth-century medicine at a figural/literal cusp / Lynette Hunter.